DnD tools and crafting in the 2024 Player’s Handbook

In the Dungeons and Dragons 2024 Player’s Handbook, a variety of DnD tools are available to characters which they can use in the course of their adventure, and to craft new items. Each of the DnD artisan’s tools provides advantage to certain skill checks, enables the player to take unique actions, and can be used to craft a specific list of items.

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DnD Artisans tools

In the 2024 Player’s Handbook, each set of DnD Artisans tools has three distinctive features:

• A specific ability score, which is applied when making checks using the tool.
• A list of specific things you can do by taking the ‘utilize’ action with the tool.
• A list of equipment that you can craft with the tool – see the section on crafting later in this guide for more information.

Being proficient in a tool means you can add your proficiency bonus to checks made with that tool. For example, if you’re proficient with Alcehmist’s tools and want to use them to identify a substance, you would roll D20 + Int modifier + Proficiency bonus.

Additionally, if you’re using a tool to assist you in a DnD skill check in which you are also proficient, you get advantage on the roll.

Here are the tools available in the 2024 Player’s Handbook:

Alchemist’s Supplies

Brewer’s Supplies

Calligrapher’s Supplies

Carpenter’s Tools

Cartographer’s Tools

Cobbler’s Tools

Cook’s Utensils

Disguise Kit

Forgery Kit

Gaming set

Dice

Dragonchess

Playing cards

Three-dragon ante

Glassblower’s Tools

Herbalism Kit

Jeweler’s Tools

Leatherworker’s Tools

Mason’s Tools

Musical Instrument

Bagpipes

Drum

Dulcimer

Flute

Horn

Lute

Lyre

Pan Flute

Shawm

Viol

Navigator’s Tools

Painter’s Supplies

Poisoner’s Kit

Potter’s Tools

Smith’s Tools

Tinker’s Tools

Thieves’ Tools

Weaver’s Tools

Woodcarver’s Tools

DnD crafting rules

The DnD crafting rules in the 2024 Player’s Handbook are similar to those found in the fifth edition DnD book, Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, with some tweaks to make them more compelling. To craft an object, you need:

• The appropriate tool.
• Proficiency with that tool.
• Raw materials worth half the item’s purchase price (rounded down).

Crafting an item takes a number of days equals its purchase price divided by 10 (round fractions up). These days don’t need to occur one after the other, and multiple characters can work on the project to shorten this crafting time (provided they have the appropriate tools and proficiency). Simply divide the time remaining by the number of people working on the item.

Crafting potions of healing and spell scrolls

In DnD 2024, it’s possible to craft both Potions of Healing and spell scrolls. Crafting a Potion of Healing requires a Herbalism Kit (and the proficiency to use it), 25 GP of raw material. It takes one day to craft (eight hours of work, technically).

Spell scrolls are a little more complex. To scribe a spell scroll, you need:

• Proficiency with the skill Arcana or with Calligrapher’s Tools.
• Have the spell prepared each day you are working on the scroll inscription.
• Raw materials, the cost of which depends on the spell’s level.
• Any Material components the spell requires, which are consumed when you complete the scroll.

The time and money it takes to scribe a spell scroll depends on the level of the spell you want to inscribe on the scroll:

When the scroll is used, the spell is cast as if the person who created it was casting it – it uses their spell save DC, spell attack bonus, and counts as being cast by someone of their level if it’s a cantrip.

For more on the new rules, here’s our 2024 Player’s Handbook review. We can also tell you how DnD 2024 backgrounds and DnD 2024 feats differ from those found in the 2014 rulebooks.